Current setup is a P3 700Mhz on XP with 256MB RAM, worked fine with MC 10. It's the media PC with nothing else running cept MC. I notice a slight speed increase with MC 11 when browsing the library. I could give the drive a defrag, but thumbnails never got rebuilt in MC10.
Note that i am not missing thumbnails, just that if i go into a view scheme with thumbnails it will rebuild them. Once its done, display on re-entering that viewscheme is as close to instant as you say (for a similar number of thumbnails).
It's when i restart MC the next day or any other reason, entering that viewscheme or similar, results in a thumbnail rebuild. You see them slowly appearing and the CPU counter stays high till its done (10s - 1 minute) or i switch out of it. Unless there is some sort of cache that is being built here, but was under the impression that there was an option setting to do that already.
My folder names are not the same as the album name so i can't use that rule,
eg. VA albums will usually have VA preceding the folder name but the album tag will just have the title and VA as album artist. Also i end the folder name with the date that the album came out.
I guess i could remove the dates from already imported images, but importing new ones will still have it.
Do you tag your cover art images at all Alex ?
I could not see any reason to do so far, usually assign the front cover to the media files and cover -art is my default visualization.. don't have CPU cycles to try anything more fancy.